[CentOS-devel] sig-configmgt SCL Prefixes

[Dominic Cleal]

On 13/05/16 13:01, Julien Pivotto wrote:
>> Perhaps there's some middle ground, e.g. using alternatives to support
>> multiple versions while trying to keep paths identical to existing
>> packages? The SIG's packages couldn't then be installed alongside an
>> EPEL package, but you might be able to install multiple versions from
>> the SIG. It'd require extra work though.
> 
> You mean, like having:
> 
> - puppet RPM -> /usr/bin/puppet ; /etc/puppet
> - puppet44 RPM -> /opt/xxx/bin/puppet44/puppet.conf ; /etc/../puppet44/puppet.conf

I mean having:

- puppet43 RPM -> /usr/bin/puppet43
- puppet44 RPM -> /usr/bin/puppet44

and using update-alternatives(8) or similar to symlink /usr/bin/puppet
to puppet43 or 44, depending on the user's preference. Other packages
such as JREs use this mechanism.

I'm not sure what you'd do about confdir/vardir in the example of Puppet.

-- 
Dominic Cleal
dominic at cleal.org

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